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...many coaches would have had the temerity to bench Wilt Chamberlain in the final moments of a championship game. But for the earthy, profane, hyper-animated Butch Van Breda Kolff, above, who held 13 head-coaching jobs in a 30-year career, the 1969 decision was no big deal--even though his Los Angeles Lakers lost to the Boston Celtics and V.B.K., as he was known, was fired. An ex--New York Knick, he coached teams including the Detroit Pistons, the Phoenix Suns and Bill Bradley's Princeton squad--and treasured teamwork and unselfishness above all. "Life isn't much...
...record in the Olympics. It turned a bored ear to science's biggest bang-the explosion of a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific-and sighed in disillusion when Frank Hayosteck, the note-in-a-bottle Romeo of Johnstown, Pa., journeyed all the way to Ireland to find his Breda O'Sullivan and then came home again-alone. In 1952, the U.S. rediscovered sports cars and discovered Marilyn Monroe...
...basketball coach Larry Eustachy of Iowa State, who forgot the one about not getting drunk and canoodling with coeds. There's Jim Harrick, ex-basketball coach of the University of Georgia, who forgot the one about not permitting athletes to receive bogus class credits. There's Jan van Breda Kolff, ex-basketball coach of St. Bonaventure University, who forgot to require a transfer student to have a two-year degree, not a certificate in welding...
This time of year, quilts and beach blankets are laid under leafy green trees that reach higher than five floors. Liz, Breda, Cindy and Michelle are reading heavy sourcebooks and paperback novels, distracted by pleas to join the two or three games of frisbee being played on the lawn...
...second story centers on Cornell's resurgence. The Big Red (7-13, 2-6) has had a difficult time adjusting to the departure of Coach Jan van Breda Kolff and last year's Rookie of the year, Pax Whitehead, both of whom went to Vanderbilt, but it may have reached a turning point last weekend with its sweep of Harvard and Dartmouth...